I really want my primary mobile computer to be a tablet mainly because I genuinely like the form factor. My current Linux laptop is dying and I thought I’d just buy the newest Lenovo Thinkpad Surface clone but Lenovo seems to have discontinued it because I couldn’t find a 2025 version anywhere, same with HP and Dell’s Surface clones. And most of the Windows tablets I could find online have dinky Intel N processors instead of Core.

Can anyone recommend a high end tablet that runs Linux well? Failing that, how bad is the Surface really with Linux as the only OS?

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    I’ve never tried one.

    It seems weird having the keyboard facing outwards. I know it gets disabled when folded back, just seems wrong. I’m not saying it is wrong just that it kinda freaks me out a little bit because I’m a bit odd like that.

    I’m looking at ideapads though, that might be nice.

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      8 hours ago

      I have an old laptop that does that and the keys are very distracting whenever I hold it in tablet mode. I find myself holding it awkwardly on one side to avoid them, even though I know they’re disabled. It is still a nice feature though, I like being able to transition a laptop to portrait mode sometimes.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking. I was looking at pictures figuring out how to hold it without touching the keys.

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        11 hours ago

        Sure ok good to know.

        I have a kind of a fleet of thinkpads, almost exclusively t490s, I really like them.

        However I also understand that doesn’t necessarily mean that everything with the lenovo brand has a similar quality.